Why did I bother?
Nov. 18th, 2006 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThis morning I was presented with something of a conundrum: either stay in and try to get BSD going on my parents spare computer or spent an hour and a half standing around in the mud, freezing my arse off in the park, watching my niece play football.
Which did I pick? Well, suffice to say, I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day trying to work out what exactly happened to the XP boot loader.
Updated: After a little bit of a struggle — I initially failed to do a "
And suddenly everything started working like a charm. Actually, the whole thing turned out to be quite a fun way to pass a cold Saturday morning. Certainly better than standing around in the freezing mud with the rest of my family...
Which did I pick? Well, suffice to say, I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day trying to work out what exactly happened to the XP boot loader.
Updated: After a little bit of a struggle — I initially failed to do a "
sudo sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16" — I eventually got GRUB installed and working. I then added the following to the menu.lst file to load XP:title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader 1
makeactive
bootAnd suddenly everything started working like a charm. Actually, the whole thing turned out to be quite a fun way to pass a cold Saturday morning. Certainly better than standing around in the freezing mud with the rest of my family...
